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As the title says, I'm interested in this community's perceptions on nuclear energy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Personally, as it currently stands, no. But it could potentially be, given better waste treatment practices and far better regulation and consistently enforced safety requirements.

It's far greener than fossil fuels, when run carefully at least. But between the persistent issues with waste reclamation and harmful leakage, and the massive amount of damage that can be done when mistakes are made or safety is overlooked, I don't think it qualifies as "green".

So from a practical standpoint, I still think new resources are better spent developing infrastructure for solar, wind, geothermal, etc. But as we are phasing out other power sources, pretty much everything else should go before we start to decommission nuclear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think nuclear also benefits a centralized grid structure more than community-based energy production and use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All power generation benefits a centralized grid structure most by definition. There are scaling laws involved and humans tend not to use power at 100% all of the time, so by centralizing production and storage reductions in cost and efficiency increases in production become possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't the main beneficiary of centralized power generation industry and not the average citizen?

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